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Nudge for Loiuse.... she needs your advice.

Deanna X

I remember night duty - 12-hour shift, just 2 nurses per ward. Remember drinking black coffee to help keep alert and sucking the odd ascorbic acid tablet as a vitamin supplement.

East Point

I trained 1958 - 1961 Lilly. LOL

East Point

OKAY................. why did you boil up the urine?
There must have been a reason, and do they still do it today?

And Monica Dickens books were good, I have read them too.
The 'Doctor' books.... was that Richard Gordon.. or is my memory really going?

His books were so funny, far better than the films ever portrayed.
keep this up girls, I am loving this thread.

Deanna X

And ice cream after op---now it is toast or they can't go home!!!

oh yes, I remember now ENT. wards . Fast work in those days! What memories being stirred up here!

We did that as well,the cotton wool on the sterilizer...
Any one else remember Tonsil days? Two days a week were tonsil days.Up to eight in a separate ward.Quarter-hourly pulses for hours ..Any 'bleeders were usually red-heads?

I nursed for 40 year,s,----I retired 3 years ago and my how things have changed.

Ahh the good old days----I think they got better care in our day's,not as much paper work.
Remember Tow and Gamgee wadding,and putting the rolls of cotton wool on top if sterilizler to fluff it up before rolling into balls for the dressing drums

more Indians....yes...too many cowboys

Still nursing after 34 years some friends think I am mad, sometimes I agree, but you can't help enjoying the job. Would be better though with more workers and less managers!!

Yes ,everything changes in life as the years roll by. For the better, well we can only hope .Just enjoying so many happy memories of times gone by.

Whatever ones nursing era is..it will always involve..memories..mishaps..and changes.
I have been nursing for near 20 yrs .and I am just 39 yrs. I went into nursing initially to help people..and to wear the cap..(like in The Angels)..when I started they phased that out..(to my dismay!)..
We now live in a techno era with machinery doing a lot of work for the nursing profession...but I started my training..using..mercury thermometers...having to do manual BPs...taking pulses, by ur stopwatch..making up sterile trolleys from scratch....Changes? Nursing is forever evolving...Thank Goodness!!!

I only did ten years,then got married and never returned..My daughter trained as a nurse as well Got her degree ,but not nursing now she is a medical rep now and loves it..

I'm a trained nurse and proud of it

I can rememeber in the PTS school being told by the Sister Tutor that we were mere specs of dust within the hospital! Mm!

I remember the tow!!

And the "electric shocks" that came off the beds with those rubber sheets!

Just need a little prompting and the memories come flooding back!

Such a relief with all this talk of dementia about!!

Bet

you only did nursing Polly for 10 yrs?...

oh yes, those wretched trolleys wheeling them from the sterilzing room to the pts bedside desperately hoping the bowls wouldn't slip. Then as you said back to the sterilizer yet again.

....all in packs now...you just open up nice little present looking things..that have all the gallipots in..gauze..Doctors have not changed...they still expect you to be hand maidens..!..